Motor.



T; A. WHITE.

MOTOR.

APPLECATION FILED JUNE 4.1915. I

1,186,353 7 Patented June 6, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I;

Witnesses Inventor I. 1 WK FM by r Attorneys T. A. WHITE.

MOTOR.

APPLICAHON HLED JUNE 4.1915.

Patented June 6, 1916.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2 nventor Witnesses by Attorneys THOMAS A. WHITE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

FEIQ.

MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed June 4, 1915. Serial No. 32,117.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. \VI-Irrn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Motor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a motor especially designed to be driven by air currents, although it is to be understood that, with certain slight modifications, it can also be used as a water motor.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means whereby the area of the wings of the motor presented to the actuating current will be automatically reduced or increased, in proportion to the velocity of the actuating current, whereby the motor is maintained practically at a uniform speed under the action of currents of varying velocities.

A further object is to provide a motor which can be readily and cheaply manufac-' tured, has but few parts subjected to wear, and which is of high efiiciency.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the in vention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a per spective view of a motor embodying the present improvements, certain of the parts being broken away and some of the parts being exaggerated to better illustrate the construction. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the base of the head of the motor and the table on which it is mounted. Fig. .3 is an enlarged section through the connection between the governor and the power transmitting sleeve.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a suitable supporting structure on which is arranged a base or table 2 which, in the present instance, has a central upstanding boss 3 in which is arranged a boss 4. This boss is surrounded by a gear 5 bolted or otherwise secured to the bottom of the ring-like base 6 of the motor head, the fastening means in the present instance being indicated at 7. This head is formed with a counterbore 8 extending thereinto from the bottom theerof and ar ranged in said counterbore are upper and lower rings 9 carrying spaced anti-friction balls 10 or any other suitable anti-friction elements. Extending between the rings 9 so as to engage the anti-friction devices 10 is a bearing ring 11 fitting snugly about the bushing 4 and fastened in any suitable manner, as by means of bolts 1:2, to the boss 3. By providing bolts 7 and 12 for holding the parts together, it will be seen that the structure can be readily assembled and taken apart. parts described and shown provides an eificient anti-friction bearing for the head so that it can rotate freely under'the action of the motive current.

The gear 5 is constantly in mesh with a small gear 13 secured to the upper end of a driven shaft 14 which is preferably journaled in the base or table 2.

Upstanding from the base 6 is a core 15 although it is to be understood that this core may be dispensed with if desired. EX- tending radially from the core and fixedly attached to it are frames 16. In the structure illustrated, four of these frames are used, the same being spaced 90 degrees, but it is to be understood that this number may be increased if desired. Each frame is provided, at a point between its ends, with an upstanding dividing strip 17 and journaled in each dividing strip and in the outer end of the frame are shafts 18 the inner ends of which are provided with gears 19 which constantly mesh with a rack bar 20 slidably mounted in the upper and lower portions of the frame 16. Secured to each shaft 18 is a sail 21 of a suitable strong fabric and which is adapted to be rolled upon the shaft when the rack bar 20 is moved upwardly and to be unrolled from the shaft when the rack bar is moved downwardly. The depending portions of the sails lie close to a backing 22 preferably made up of crossed wires stretched upon the frame 16.

The frames 16 may be connected at their upper ends in any suitable manner, as by means of a disk 23 and extending through this disk and also through the bushing a is a shaft 24 adapted to rotate freely with in the disk 23 and bushing 4 and carrying, at its upper end, a vane 25. A block 26 is Furthermore the arrangement of secured to and rotates with the shaft :24: and

he a cross bar 27 fixcc ly connected thereto and preferably formed with upturned ends To these ends of the bar are nivotally connected the side arms 29 of a governing paddle of a: preferred construction de signed to offer resistance to the flow of motive current. Extending from the paddle at points above the axis of movement thereof are arms 31 and t 02 to oppo tely enter ding fingers s 'led by a col ar for rota i n upon a sl eve which is a' o a c but the collar I r p oveinent relative to :l-cve b WO-lill'lfl' within an annular e 36 formed in said sleeve. 1 font inf; from sleeve are arms 37 and each of these arms is slidably and pi *otally 2O engaged by one end portion of a lever 38 fulcrumed, as at 39,upon a bearing member u to Kill from and fixedly connected to one oi. m nes 16. The other end of each. 102 x 'otally and slidably connected. to nd of the adjacent rack bar 20.

th rs 3o sition to support the sle ve n pos1t1on and the paddle 3 1L5 a. i so in its elevated osition. The vane is conat right angles to the axis the paddle relative to 0 that the face of the padto the motive Ya' hen the paddle is in its normal or raised position the 21 are unrolled so as to practicall3 cover the backing-s 22. Ol

any motive current act- :iotor will cause those sails, which d or a. machine, to press against nd t caus the head of i olve, while the sails at the the motor vill be forced away 1 .cacxings will feather. Consequently a cl. rent will thus set up a constant rot tron increase, the increased on the paddle 30 will the pat; e to downwardly and to thrust. through arms 31 and links 32 against slee *e 35 with the esult that levers 38 will be actuated to raise the rack hare and cause the sh f s 18 to partly or entirely wind the sails, the amount of this winding being dependent upon the extent of movement of paddle 30 under the action of flopies of this patent may no obtained. for five the motive current. Thus it will be seen that the rotation of the motor will be maintained practically uniform under the action of currents of varying velocities.

lihat is claimed is 1. In a current motor, a revoluble structure including radial frames, an open. back-- inc; carried by each frame, separate sails on e 4 frame and adapted to be pressed against the adjacent baclrings when brought to the active side of the motor, each sail hanging freely and being capable of inde pendent fcathering when moved against the current, a vane revoluble about a vertical tiltable current operated member said member for either furlingor unru ling; the sails.

he vane, and means operated. by said memduring the tilting movement thereof for winding or unwinding the sails simultaneously.

2:: current motor including a shaft, a vane secured thereto, a governing paddle revoluble with and adapted to swing upwardly and downwardly relative to the shaft, a member slidable on the shaft and connected to and actuated by the paddle, a revoluble structure on the shaft and including radial frames, a sail carried by each frame, a shaft supporting: each sail, a gear upon each shaft, rack bars meshing with the gears, levers carried by the frame and connected to the slidable member and rack bars, and open sail backing's carried by the frames and constituting means for holding the sails in actire positions when brought to one side of th motor and across the path of the motive current.

in testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOlVlAS A. VJHITE.

lVit-nesses VI. E. NILsoN, T. L, VVILsON.

cents each, by addressing the Gommlsaioner of Patent-i, Washington. D. C. 

